URANUS IN VIRGO
SO earthy, mercurial, passive a sign as Virgo can have little in common with the fire and activity of Uranus. Sometimes, the influence, as in the case of Cancer, becomes harmonized and fixed; but this will only be in special cases. For the most part, one is likely to find eccentricity and mental instability, and it is not often that any great driving force is developed.

Nevertheless, we are at once confronted with the case of Balzac, presumably one of the greatest novelists that ever lived. But here Leo is rising, and Uranus, though just within the second house, has no planet between him and the horizon. The Sun, lord of the Ascendant, is in conjunction with Jupiter in the tenth house. There is no lack of harmony between the personality and the temperament, except for the mercurial touch given by Virgo, which made the master personally very eccentric in manner, and somewhat unintelligible in his actions, at least to the majority of his contemporaries.

Brigham Young has Uranus rising in Virgo, just within the second house, in exact sextile to Mars which is within four degrees of the conjunction of Jupiter. Mercury, the lord of Virgo, is in close conjunction with the Sun. This combination gives that tremendous energy and ability which he had, and which the mere position of Uranus would have denied him.

The following well known persons were born with Uranus in the sign Virgo: {460}

Mussolini

Geraldine Farrar

“Bud” Fisher

Roy Howard

Ray Long

Balzac

Ethel Barrymore

For the benefit of those who are not in possession of Raphael's Ephemeris, or who are not able to interpret the symbols contained therein, the years when Uranus is in the sign Virgo are as follows:

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